An interview with anti-eviction organizer Steve Meacham of City Life/Vida Urbana in Boston
Since most of the original Occupy encampments were evicted by wintertime, the question now is, what's next for activists? One of the most popular suggestions is "Occupy Our Homes," a campaign in which occupiers around the country would do actions at foreclosed houses or at bailed-out banks that are throwing people out of their homes. A national day of action on December 6 focused on this approach and featured home occupations or solidarity marches in 25 cities, including New York and Chicago.
Occupy Our Homes has three particularly good instincts.
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Lazy hippies. Here's a crazy idea, if you pay your mortgage, you get to stay in your home. You signed the contract, either live up to the agreement or get the hell out. The problem is these days, people always want something for nothing. Real life doesn't work that way.
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